Germany's Over Your Threshold, which has been on tour with Obscura, has checked in with the following announcement about missing the trek's final date:

"We feel very sorry to inform you that the 'A DECADE OF PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL' tour has come to an end for us earlier than expected. Due to a road accident with our caravan on the way to Zurich we are forced to cancel the tour´s big finale tonight. N

"one of us were harmed, but we won´t be able to make it in time to the venue. It´s an unfortunate and frustrating happening, but it can´t be changed anymore.

"Nevertheless, Over Your Threshold is looking back to a mind-blowing tour that exceeded all of our expectations. Thank you so much to all the visitors and supporters, every single venue´s staff, the whole tour crew, Deadborn, Aeon and last but not least Steffen Kummerer & Obscura to make this an unforgettable experience!

Celebrating a decade of progressive death metal, Germany's Obscura will be heading out for a nine-date tour through Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in March of 2013.

The Swedish Satanic Death Metal outfit Aeon will be acting as direct support to the headliner. Comments the band: "It will be awesome to do this tour with Obscura, and with our newly released album 'Aeons Black' we are now stronger than ever with a killer live set that will leave no venue and crowd intact. Expect nothing else but pure fucking death metal!"

The opener on the run will be Munich death metal hopefuls Over Your Threshold, who comment on their first tour as follows: "We feel honoured to be a part of the 'A Decade Of Progressive Death Metal' Tour and also are very excited to present all songs of our recently released debut album 'Facticity' to you people. There are plenty of stages we´ve never entered before, and all the more we are looking forward to share them with such stunning bands like Obscura, Deadborn, and our label-mates of Aeon. This is a mandatory happening for all the metal heads who are into tech death metal! See you on tour!"

German progressive death metal titans Obscura have announced a special 10th anniversary show this December in Landshut, Germany. This one night only event will take place on December 15th at Alte Kaserne with special guests Dark Fortress, Hokum, and Illegimitation, an incarnation of the band’s original lineup, which will play the band's first demo in its entirety. More info on the show, including ticket information is available via the band’s official website here.

Guitarist/Vocalist Steffen Kummerer commented on the upcoming anniversary show: “After years of recording, touring & building up a loyal fanbase around the world we invite all of our friends & fans to our 10 year anniversary show in Landshut, Germany. We celebrate the end of the ‘OMNIVIUM Worldtour‘ in the same city where it started early 2011. To make this event something special we reformed the original lineup of Obscura for a short set, playing the full ‘ILLEGIMITATION‘ demo as a whole. While DARK FORTRESS and HOKUM share a long history of links with OBSCURA, it seems almost self-evident to have both booked for ‘10 YEARS OBSCURA – A Decade Of Progressive Death Metal‘. Let’s make this a great evening for everyone.”

Obscura is also currently streaming the 2011 album "Omnivium" (reviewed here) at this location. Obscura's upcoming tour dates are:

German progressive death metal titans Obscura have announced their first ever Latin American appearance this December in Mexico City. This special one-off show will take place on December 8th at Circo Volador with Portugal’s Moonspell. Guitarist/Vocalist Steffen Kummerer commented on the upcoming appearance:

"We are proud to announce our very first show in Mexico City after almost 10 years of playing Death Metal! This is the first show in Latin America for Obscura and our fan base in Mexico is just incredible. Since there were rumors spread about this single show we receive every day more and more messages from fans if this is going to be true. We can confirm the concert with Portugal's finest, Moonspell, and make this a special show for everyone. We are looking forward to playing for you!"

Additionally, Obscura is about to celebrate the band's 10th anniversary with a string of shows in Germany. More details will be announced shortly. The band is also currently streaming 2011’s "Omnivium" (reviewed here) in the bandcamp player below. More...

German progressive/technical metal titans Obscura recently wrapped up a tour of Japan. The band has just released live footage from one of the shows that was filmed in Tokyo. The entire set was filmed and is available for viewing below. The setlist from the show was:

Frontman Steffen Kummerer spoke about the Japanese tour and Tokyo show: "With the recent trip to Japan the Omnivium world tour is almost finished. It was a pleasure to meet our fans from the land of the rising sun again, thank you for your never ending support! We would like to share our Tokyo concert with all of you, so feel free to see the fan filmed material below."

Obscura's latest release "Omnivium" is streaming in its entirety on the group's Bandcamp Page. More...

Montreal's Beneath the Massacre has announced the band's first ever Japanese tour, which will see the group perform alongside Obscura. The group will venture over to Japan in the middle of June after completing a string of dates in Eastern Canada. All upcoming tour dates are listed below.

Earlier this year, Beneath the Massacre released the band's first full-length since 2008, “Incongruous." Footage from the album's recording sessions can also be viewed at this location.

German technical death metal band Obscura is streaming the band's cover version Cynic song "How Could I?," over at Metal Sucks at this location. The song appears on Obscura's "Illegimitation" collection, which is available for purchase through the band at this location.

"Illegimitation" contains the following material:

Obscura - 'Illegimitation' Demo (2003)

1. ...and all will come to an end2. Crucified3. Fear4. Immanent Desaster

Obscura - 'Cosmogenesis Preproduction' (2006)

5. Incarnated6. Open the Gates7. Headworm

Obscura - 'Recording Session 2011' (2011)

8. Flesh and the Power it Holds (Death Cover)9. Atheist - Piece of Time (Atheist Cover)10. How Could I? (Cynic Cover)

Technical death metal titans Obscura have an upcoming European tour featuring Spawn of Possession, Gorod, and Exivious. The band has now posted a teaser trailer for the "Omnivium" tour, which can be found after the jump. The dates are as follows:

German technical metal act Obscura, which recently announced more European shows, has posted another track online from the upcoming "Illegimitation" demo collection. Check out Obscura's cover of the Death track "The Flesh and the Power it Holds" in the player available below.

You can also hear a previously posted song from the collection recently posted online. Head here to check out "Incarnated." More...

German metal titans Obscura have confirmed four additional dates for their four-week headlining European tour this spring in support of their latest album "Omnivium" (reviewed here).

Support on the tour will come from label-mates Spawn of Possession, French tech-death maestros Gorod, and Dutch progressive metallers Exivious. The tour will kick-off on March 9th in Stuttgart, Germany then march through Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe, and the UK before returning to Germany on April 7th. Details are as follows:

As part of the ongoing "Ask the Artist" series, Metal Injection asked members of Prime Evil, Ramming Speed, Rosetta, A Life Once Lost, 3, Fight Amp, Howl, Black Tusk, Last Chance To Reason, Obscura, God Forbid, Magrudergrind and more to recall their favorite New Year's experience. Watch the video of their answers below.

Obscura has issued the following announcement about posting a song online from the band's upcoming demo collection:

"Happy new year to you all! Get started in 2012 with a few new tracks of the 'Illegimitation' Demo Collection we uploaded to our official YouTube channel. Enjoy & kepp on shredding in the new year!"

The collection, set to be released in March 2012, will include ten never-before-heard tracks, including the band's earliest recordings from 2003, unreleased songs from the "Cosmogenesis" sessions of 2006, and brand new cover songs with the newest line-up from 2011. The "Illegimitation" track listing is as follows:

Every band dreads touring in a snowstorm, and it can get dangerous. Metal Injection spoke with members of God Forbid, A Life Once Lost, Fight Amp, Black Tusk, DAATH, Last Chance To Reason, Howl, Magrudergrind, Cannabis Corpse, Obscura, Prime Evil, Rosetta, This Is Hell, and Ramming Speed about what the worst snowstorm they ever drove through was in the latest edition of the web show "Ask The Artist."

Check out their answers in the video below, or you can watch the previous Ask The Artist videos at this location. More...

At the MetalSuckFest in New York City, Metal Injection asked members of A Life Once Lost, Fight Amp, Black Tusk, DAATH, Last Chance To Reason, Howl, Magrudergrind, Cannabis Corpse, Ultrageist, Obscura, Prime Evil, Rosetta, This Is Hell and Ramming Speed what the most metal gift they ever received was. Find out their answers in the video below. More...

Bass webzine NoTreble has released an exclusive interview with Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Nufutic, Pestilence, ex-Obscura), where he talks about his musical background and leaving German technical death metal act Obscura.

Thesseling collaborated with Obscura from 2008 to 2011 and recorded the band's full-length albums "Cosmogenesis" (2009) and "Omnivium" (2011). In 2009 Jeroen rejoined Dutch death metallers Pestilence after a 15-year hiatus. He recorded Pestilence's fourth and sixth studio albums, "Spheres" (1993) and "Doctrine" (2011).

Thesseling commented in the interview, "After leaving Obscura, I thought 'What could I do?', I don’t feel like touring anymore, being five or six weeks on the road in a bus, every night playing the same songs. It was great to do it, but on the other hand I must say you don’t get to develop yourself to become a better musician because you’re always playing the same stuff every night, over and over again."

A further excerpt from the interview can be found below.

NoTreble: A few months ago it was announced you left Obscura. What happened?

Jeroen: That was a very hard decision for me, but I had to leave the band. Four people trying to make a living off that band means you have to tour a lot. If you do nothing besides the band, you have to tour for 7-8 months per year just to make a living of it. That was something that I tried. I left my job and I went for it. During the period that I was active with Obscura, I also rejoined Pestilence again for several reasons, but also to make money to survive. Then you find out that it’s extremely hard to combine two bands, not only for recordings, but more for touring. You get huge problems and conflicting schedules.

It was last year that made me decide that it would be better to go back to a job and give up one of those bands. You can’t be in a day job while the rest of the band wants to tour for months. It was more like a financial pressure that made me decide to leave Obscura while the band was doing really well and as they were recording their second album, which was released and received very very well. [I played on the album], but I haven’t performed it live.

German technical death metal Titans Obscura have released two tracks from their upcoming demo collection, "Illegimitation" at this location.

The collection, set to be released in March 2012, will include ten never-before-heard tracks, including the band's earliest recordings from 2003, unreleased songs from the "Cosmogenesis" sessions of 2006, and brand new cover songs with the newest line-up from 2011. The album's track listing, cover art, and numerous, unique packages are available directly from the band now via Kickstarter at this location.

German technical/progressive metal titans Obscura have announced a four-week headlining European tour in the spring of 2012 in support of their latest album "Omnivium." Support on the tour will come from label-mates Spawn of Possession, French tech-death maestros Gorod, and Dutch metallers Exivious.

The tour will kick-off on March 9th in Stuttgart, Germany then march through Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe, and the UK before returning to Germany on April 7th. A complete listing of dates is listed below. Obscura's Steffen Kummerer commented on the upcoming run:

"We are stoked to announce our upcoming European headlining tour to support our newest album 'Omnivium'! With our label-mates Spawn of Possession, tech-death lunatics Gorod and the fusion influenced Exivious this tour is a must for everyone who is into progressive music. This is the ultimate shredfest of the year!"

Additionally, Obscura recently announced a demo collection entitled "Illegimitation," which will be released by the band this March. The collection will include ten never-before-heard tracks, including the band's earliest recordings from 2003, unreleased songs from the "Cosmogenesis" sessions of 2006, and brand new cover songs with the newest line-up from 2011. The album's track listing, cover art, and numerous, unique packages are available directly from the band now at this location.

Spawn of Possession has announced it will be supporting German technical death metal act Obscura for a European tour in March, 2012. Gorod and Exivious are rounding out the bill. You can check out the tour poster below, or find full details on the dates and venues for the tour at this location.